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"In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is a sign of perfection." - Curnonsky

Saturday, March 10, 2007

The Dresden Files: Hair of the Dog

The episode opens with a man fleeing through a graveyard. He is violently attacked. Murphy calls Harry about a dead body found in the park. However, the body is a women's and she has been partially scalped, and her upper canines have been extracted. Murphy connects the death to 7 similar murders, including one found in the river last week. There's no immediately cause of death, but silver iodide is found in her mouth and lungs, as if she inhaled it.

Harry, of course, is immediately clued in that the woman is a lycanthrope (werewolf, though they never use that word in the episode). The FBI moves in and takes the case over, pushing Murphy and Dresden both out of the way and threatening Dresden with jail time.

Instead Dresden focuses on the victim's roommate, Heather, and is able to put the pieces together as to what happened to her. But there's a twist he's not aware of--the hostile female FBI agent is also a lycanthrope, and her partner is killing lycanthropes in order to cure her of her affliction. Unfortunately, he's been bitten, too.

This was a episode, with some genuine creepiness and strong emotion, and I hope the show continues with this trend.

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About Me

I've been writing my blog since 2007 and have decided to repurpose it to showcase my cooking passion.
How did a girl like me discover passion and joy in the kitchen? I suppose it all began with my mother. She made the basics for us back in the 70s - tacos, spaghetti, and boxed spice cake. We didn't go out to eat a whole lot, so I had the experience of watching mom in the kitchen doing her thing.
My cooking can be described as simple Midwestern. I prefer easy recipes that don't include a lot of fancy ingredients. If I can't pronounce it, I won't cook with it.
Let me introduce you to the joys of being in the kitchen without even realizing it.